The Sports Bank.net is a Midwest focused webzine featuring commentaries on the most stimulating topics and interviews with some of the biggest names in sports. It provides top notch content for the sports markets in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota; with continued expansion planned. If you’re tired of all the Duke-North Carolina or Red Sox-Yankees stories incessantly produced by the Eastern Seaboard Programming Network, then you’ve come to the right place. It was founded in 2007 in Chicago by Paul M. Banks. The previous year, Banks was one of a group of twenty elite young American journalists selected to participate in a Fulbright fellowship program in Berlin.

His work has been featured in numerous media outlets including Deadspin, The Big Lead, USA Today, NBC, FOX, CBS, Chicago Tribune and more FOX, CBS, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune and 670 The Score. Banks has also appeared as a guest commentator on Comcast Sports Net, Chicago Tribune RedEye, ESPN Radio, and Sporting News Radio. While a football beat reporter and sports columnist for the student daily at the University of Illinois, his work was regularly featured on ESPN.com. He also earned his MBA at Loyola University Chicago; starting his graduate study at Michigan State…in the same semester that they won the National Title in basketball.

Currently, Banks serves as a sports writer for NBC 5 Chicago’s website and the Washington Times. He also free-lances regularly for a number of publications including the immensely popular Walter Football.com which contracted him to start up their basketball content. In August of 2008 he was also selected as the city’s sports scene writer for the Chicago 2016 Olympic Channel.

THESPORTSBANK.net STARTING LINEUP IS:

Publisher/Ruling Despot- Paul M. Banks

Senior Executive Vice President/NBA Draft Geek- David Kay.

Brewers Expert/Beer Pong Queen- Melissa “Wolly” Wollering

Podcast Host/Hater of all things Oklahoma City Thunder- Peter “Shirts” Christian

Fantasy Sports, Baseball and White Sox- The Soxman

Cubs, Illini guru- Paul Schmidt

Minnesota Sports Czar- Andy Weise